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Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server
dcblogs writes: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that, in hindsight, her decision to use a private email server to conduct official business was not the best one. But she is defending it and said the system was secure. Clinton, at news conference in New York, said the email server that she used had been set up for former President Bill Clinton. The system had "numerous safeguards" and is on home property protected by the U.S. Secret Service, she said. "There were no security breaches," said Clinton. "I think the use of that server, which started with my husband, proved to be effective and secure," she said. It still remains unclear about just how appropriate Clinton's system was. As a general rule, government IT policies don't give federal employees the option of using their own email accounts to exclusively conduct government business.
If it were today she would have been wrong but at the time she used her server it was within the laws of the land. Further government emails were hacked and made available to the public whereas her emails were not during that time period. What we have here is another instance of the right wing trying to confuse issues and keep the public from looking at real issues. Here is an example : We could easily pass laws that required a cop to walk through nursing homes on his patrol route and make note of odors or conditions warranting an inspection. By doing so we would save thousands of seniors from neglect and abuse. Yet instead of passing laws to actually do some good and protect people the right wing distracts us from doing what needs to be done. Or we could have church groups send in volunteers to walk through nursing homes daily and quickly note if meals look decent and that the rooms are clean and the patients reasonably cared for. Yet nursing hope operators will hide behind privacy laws and private property laws to prevent exposure of what the nursing homes are really like. But congress will never take on such issues as they are too busy trying to acquire re-election and political power and donations from people like nursing home owners.